The Trickster. God of Lies. God of Mischief. God of Evil. This is the Revamped Respect Thread for one of the most prominent villains in all of Marvel. Loki's machinations have been responsible for some of the most momentous storylines in Marvel history and rightly so. His power is vast as his schemes are devious.

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Befitting his stature and reputation, Loki is both greatly despised and feared. These are just a few examples of the respect he gets from other characters. Here, Dr. Strange describes Loki as an "inconceivable" foe, from Dr. Strange #56:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...DrStrange56.jpg

During the Acts of Vengeance, Red Skull is mystified by this mysterious stranger who gathers the Earth's mightiest supervillains. He attempts to usurp Loki's control over the villains by using the Controller's discs which were upgraded by Thanos. Loki is simply amused by Red Skull's treachery, from Captain America #366:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...nAmerica366.jpg

How fast is the "speed of thought"? This scene gives a clue. Here, Loki is tricked into racing an opponent on foot. After losing, his opponent is revealed to be Loki's own thoughts, "which fly at a speed beyond all reckoning. Not lightning itself can outstrip the power of thought." From Thor #272:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...iSpeed06272.jpg

Loki is. in fact, an evil genius. He has a bevy of plot device machines he's invented. This s the Macro Meson Cannon, which transmutes the helium molecules that make up the Absorbing Man and restores him in Journey Into Mystery #120:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...CanonJIM120.jpg

During his journeys through the Ultraverse (canon), Loki confronts the Nightman, who is capable of sensing evil. Among all that the Nightman has ever encountered, he has never sensed anything greater than Loki's, from Night Man #22:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...aNightMan22.jpg

Loki's magical power is also made evident by the force he can bring to bear offensively. Here, Loki's astral form nearly destroys the protective mystic shield conjured by Dr. Strange's Amulet of Agamotto with his mystic blasts in Strange Tales #123:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...ngeTales123.jpg

On a lesser scale, but with truly casual ease, Loki fires multi-directional bolts from a single finger, which fell an entire group of X-Men instantly, including Magik and Colossus (historically resistant to magicks), from Uncanny X-Men Annual #9:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...4UXMAnnual9.jpg

The magnitude of Loki's magical power can also be measured by the villains he has personally created and the power he has bestowed upon both heroes and villains. He has granted them godly abilities, amplified pre-existing abilities exponentially, provided them life and created villains entirely from scratch with his magic.

Loki literally gave life to Durok the Demolisher, one of the most dangerous of Thor's foes. Despite what the first scene of his creation suggests, it is not by the power of the Odinring which grants Durok life but Loki's own power. Odin himself reveals that the Odinring does not grant any power unto its wearer, it only drains it, from Thor #191 and 194 respectively:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...06-Durok191.jpg

The earliest example of Loki empowering someone is Sandu, a low level mutant, whose power Loki amplifies a "thousand times." Before, Sandu was merely capable of figuring out what lay in people's pockets. Afterwards, he is capable of forcing Thor to his knees, levitate and teleport entire buildings, and use world-wide telepathy which Professor Xavier describes as "unfathomable." Originally presented in Journey Into Mystery #91 and re-presented in Thor: First Thunder #3:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...-SanduJIM91.jpghttp://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...ent02-Sandu.jpg

Sacrificing his own blood on an enchanted dagger to possess Loki's power, the human, Knut Caine, would go on to battle a team of Avengers, which can be seen in the Loki's Fights section of this thread or in Tales To Astonish vol.2 #1:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...9-CaineTTA1.jpg

Loki's sorcery grants him a host of personal powers which make him one of the most dangerous and versatile villains in comics. The following are some of Loki's signature powers.

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Despite being used seldomly, one of Loki's most enduring signature powers is the ability to create copies of himself in battle. These copies were not illusions but actual physical copies. He first uses them in Avengers #1:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...01Avengers1.jpg

The versatility by which Loki can phase makes him one of the more superior phasing characters in comics. Loki can dimensionally phase as he saves his enchanted sword from shattering by Mjolnir in Journey Into Mystery #115:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...ing01JIM115.jpg

Obviously, Loki's shape-shifting serves him well for purposes of subterfuge. However, Loki can and has challenged foes physically in battles with his shape-shifting, as he does here with Thor himself in a dizzying (and brutal) array of shape-shifting in Loki #4:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...eshifting20.jpg

Loki does not require a personal connection to his target either. Simply by willing it, he can track targets he has never met... even when they manifest in disguised forms, as with Ghost Rider in the form of Danny Ketch, from Thor #430:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...Vision07430.jpg

On an even greater macro scale, Loki can scan an entire universe for significant events that reveal themselves, like when he was trapped in the Ultraverse and discovers that the Infinity Gems have arrived, from Hardcase #23:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...8Hardcase23.jpg

Physical boundaries are meaningless to Loki as he has the magical ability to teleport. "Faster than the brain can comprehend," Loki can teleport the Absorbing Man to and from desolate places, from Journey Into Mystery #122:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...ion02JIM122.jpg

Loki has even surpassed the boundaries of the temporal. The first time Loki time-traveled was when Zarrko, the Tomorrow Man, pulls him into his relative future to battle the Thor Corps. At the climax of the battle, Loki is stranded in the time stream but is able to travel back in time to his proper past, as revealed in Thor #454:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...meTravel454.jpg

Loki's control over the chronal energies permitted him to ensorcel the heroes' astral forms such that upon contact with a piece of Knorda's Apple, they would automatically be brought back to the Nexus of Realities, in Domination Factor #5:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...-TimeTravel.jpg

As most time-travel stories will do, the altered time-stream is eventually set aright by the end of the story. Yet, unlike all the heroes who can recall only vague feelings of deja vu, Loki retains his full memories of the entire ordeal. Indeed, it is revealed that he was aware of the entire time paradox from the beginning (though how that is, is never quite fully explained), from Domination Factor #8:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...-TimeTravel.jpg

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His ability to effect time-travel and somehow be aware of a time paradox from the beginning is again demonstrated when Hela helped him time-travel where he manipulated events in his own past as revealed in Thor vol.3 #12:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...eTravelv212.jpg

In one of his more impressively complicated transmutation feats, Loki was responsible for the combining and creation of the infamous Tri-Sentinel at the conclusion to Acts of Vengeance in Amazing Spider-Man #329:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...piderman329.jpg

Loki is also a formidable psionic. And as any psionic worth their salt is wont to do, he can utilize an astral form. As shown before and later in this thread, Loki can utilize all his abilities while in astral form, although his power is not as potent while in that form as introduced in Strange Tales #123:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...ngeTales123.jpg

When the Enchantress begins altering the fabric of reality and memory by manipulating the World Tree with her magicks, Loki melds the minds of Thor and Balder and her own's to pierce through the reality changes being wrought in Thor: God-Sized #1:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...7God-Sized1.jpg

It almost goes without saying that Loki's sorcerous power is not only vast, it's also varied. What follows is a catalogue of Loki's spells. First, an overview of the depths of Loki's experience to start:

Loki's penchant for learning sorcery manifests here where, under the pretense of being a dutiful and attentive son, Loki listens to Odin's stories to "discover new paths to power and witchery," from Thor Annual #11:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...e01Annual11.jpg

"Odin was not alone in hanging upon the Yggdrasil Tree for fourteen days to learn runes. Loki too lost precious life blood to the study of the dark arts." That's right, years before Thor would commit to a greater sacrifice, Loki was learning of Rune Magicks, from Amazing Spider-Man vol.2 #62:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...ce07ASMv262.jpg

Nobilus was cloned by the High Evolutionary with the power of both Thor and Loki. As Nobilus moves to slay Thor with his magic, Loki saps his magical force and weakens him enough for Thor to defeat him, from Thor #482:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...pping08a482.jpg

Loki wove spells on the powerful and unwitting Godstorm which would transfer all of its power to Loki whenever he wanted to claim it. When Loki ambushes him from behind with an attack, he elicits a blast of power from the Godstorm which Loki absorbs with the rest of his power, from Godstorm #3:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...09Godstorm3.jpg

Loki has also often transferred his own strength to unwitting allies a great many times. Loki attempts to even the odds between Odin and the Storm Giant, Skagg. When Odin begins draining Skagg's power on Earth, Loki replenishes Skagg's strength with his own from Asgard. Eventually, Loki's limits are surpassed by Odin's power, from Journey Into Mystery #104:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...ing00JIM104.jpg

However, Loki rarely gives anything without exacting a price. When Loki granted Thor half his strength, he also wove a curse upon Thor, inflicting him with grave seizures that would periodically sap Thor of his strength, as revealed in Thor #413: http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...ansfer04413.jpg

Loki has also often used the enchanted Norn Stones. When they were first introduced, Loki explained their individual powers when he is forced into a series of trials bereft of his weapons and spells (Loki cheated, obviously). The first Norn Stone could project actual scenes from far-away locations, from Journey Into Mystery #116:http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/...ctionJIM116.jpg